Atom counting in ultracold gases using photoionization and ion detection

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Campey, T ^a   Vale, C J ^a   Davis, M J ^a   Heckenberg, N R ^a   Rubinsztein Dunlop, H ^a   Kraft, S ^b   Zimmermann, C ^b   Fortagh J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOIONIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ION DETECTION; ULTRACOLD GASES;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33750199263     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.043612     Document Type: Article

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